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Would You Rather: Give Up Your Favorite Food or Sex For a Year?

If you had to go without your favorite food or sex for a year, which would you choose? Today.com and Match.com partnered to ask 4,000 people this very question, and the results might shock you.

Clearly, this woman is choosing frosting.

According to MSNBC.com, 1 in 3 single women say that if there was a toss up between food and sex, food would win! And though it makes more—but not total—sense to me that if you're not having sex anyway (considering you're solo), then food might take priority, there were also plenty of people in committed relationships—28 percent to be exact—that would forgo an orgasm for their best-loved dish. Guys, on the other hand, were less gung-ho. Only 16 percent said yea to food over sex. And, in case you're wondering, the food most favored was chocolate (26 percent). Next in line was steak and pizza.

Goodness. Either food is just too delicious, or the sex most folks are having is not delicious enough! Sex therapist Ian Kerner, who spoke to MSNBC.com, agrees: “People often say things like they'd pick money or sleep or food over sex. I think this shows that people take sex for granted, or that they're not enjoying sex enough to really value it appropriately.” Definitely some food for thought. (Yes, I went there.)